THEN & NOW - Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Join me for a Time Travel through the decades at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, featuring before and after photo fades. I show a present day scene at the Pleasure Beach and fade it into an old photograph, to show what once was.
Taken from my Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Hidden Secrets Series below;
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[@skapunkno1]

I miss Noahs Ark, Wild Mouse, Log Flume and Gold Mine, but most of all I miss the Fun House. 😪

[@AdventureMe]

Me too

[@robertburgess3767]

The music puts a lump in my throat! I do love these ideas comparing old to new...well done Darren!..hope your enjoying the cocktails 🍸 😉

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Robert

[@chrisnelson2705]

The old pictures of people packed in are brilliant. Takes people back to a time when people weren't afraid to be happy. To enjoy life. How times are changing. I love the then and now shots. Also loved your series on butlins filey. Please try and get back there. Keep up the good work.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Chris. I will

[@hollimurray8856]

Brilliant video I love the fades it always gives me goosebumps.

[@sean65xjrurwin61]

Fantastic mixing, I went to primary school right behind the pleasure beach and I can remember hearing the laughing clown and the rollercoaster rattling round the tracks from the classroom in summer. Great memories and happy days!! Well done Darren, great editing mate ...

[@AdventureMe]

I bet that was distracting

[@sean65xjrurwin61]

It was, and for me... Far more interesting. Thunderstorm here at the moment !!

[@douglasthompson296]

Heyas Dazza, fabulous, fabulous, 👍👍 all those overlays of yesteryear and today. What amazed me most was how BUSY the pleasure beach was back in the older days as compared to modern times. Free entry, simpler rides etc and folks were there for a weeks holiday not day tripping. No Benidorm on the scene back then 😀 Cheers DougT

[@eliz9369]

Brilliant, just brilliant. Better than anything they put on tv. Thank you Darren.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks

[@tobeycat2007]

Great pictures so much has changed over the years.

[@andrewclegg6541]

Excellent time warp !

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

I first visited the Pleasure Beach in 1962. The change since then is quite remarkable, it's all the mega-rides now...

[@nickthomas181]

Absolutely epic.! The best vlog you've ever done ( including our live show...lol..special memories) The visuals,the music...oh man, you've set a new bench mark now.Only dizzy new heights await.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks nick

[@Adzcantsing]

Brought a tear to my eye seeing the log flume and wild mouse. The way you edit them from the exact spot is amazing.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@michaelholt2415]

Beautiful video,been going to Blackpool for the best part of 38 years,made me feel like a kid again,thank you so much 👏👏👏

[@shirleylynch7529]

Wow Darren. What can one say. You have a gift, you manage to capture the essence of whatever you film. This was amazing and the choice of music incredible. Wow.

[@eliz9369]

I completely agree. Whatever Darren does is fantastic!

[@mousecharger]

Loved this.thank you ❤

[@jennyrobinson8449]

Another fantastic video Darren 👏

[@a11csc]

pure magic darren

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@jennybates]

I remember "big" Ned was the operator of the scenic railway, back in the late 60s. And "Uncle" Jack Blunden was in charge of the children's rides. Jack was from Blackburn and worked every season on the Pleasure Beach until he passed, in the late 60s. He also had a smallholding near Witton park, in Blackburn.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Jenny

[@deborahbrackenbury2207]

Wow what a beautiful place it used to be, great video as ever x

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks

[@-abacchus]

Outstanding video! My only criticism would be I wish it was longer!!! Seeing images of the Fun House and the Log Flume was emotional!! ...I must remember to send you some 80s pictures of PBP when I next venture into the loft!

[@AdventureMe]

Yes please

[@samwilliams9919]

Fantastic video! It’s a shame some of the classic buildings weren’t preserved as they would be timeless today and really compliment the historic attractions!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks

[@WC21UKProductionsLtd]

How you identified some of those places that have changed beyond recognition - impressive.

[@AdventureMe]

Takes a while. But I have a knack for a location

[@sarahillingworth2718]

Love the background music 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks. It's their own song

[@sarahillingworth2718]

@@AdventureMe ah ok 👍

[@waynepaxford7263]

I do love these old blackpool video and the history it's just amazing the pictures and music excellent top job mate hope you and your family and friends are well and safe

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Wayne

[@braggelbak]

wait a minute i just woke up...time travellers. I believe that 1 of Charly chaplin's film recordings was shot here. at least one piece. great music! enjoy at Crancanaria. I will of course share this broadcast. thank you very much.

[@PupRiku]

I love videos like this. Relaxing. Nice to put on in the background. Great content as usual :)

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@OutandAboutWithDavid]

Thank you Darran. Great selection of pictures from now and them. Will watch again some time. I do like to see how thinks changed from the past to today date.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks David

[@seany84uk]

I have a great photo of my mum standing around the south pier with the pb in the background and guessing it has to be mid/late 60s due to the look of her age. Its amazing how different the park was back then. Sadly im not on facebook etc to share

[@ste.h9825]

Thank you.Amazing.

[@johnbrice2842]

well done for a great vid.really really great to see the changes

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks John

[@501rivet]

These before and today theme retrospectives can be heartbreaking realizing what has been destroyed for the evolution for survival/success, and, realizing that in 2024 some lost structures could not even be replicated because of cost and contemporary social values. Oh, I yearn for the days of being an uncomplicated well reasoned adult again.....

[@ianlamb9606]

Spot on vid Darren, enjoy you're brake. 🍻

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@MrChrisBarker]

That was a brilliant video. Nicely done sir . 👏👏👏

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Chris

[@michaelwatterson2965]

Superb as always. Your photo merging skills are amazing. Background music just right for this. Quite a sad feeling watching though as I don't think it's all changed for the better, but that's probably because I'm getting old.

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for the fading back and forth in time. Amazing work! Your the best, Darren. Cheers mate!

[@leeanngillett9334]

Born and bred in Blackpool and I love your videos! It's amazing to see the really old pictures of my hometown. Your videos of the winter garden are excellent and so interesting. Keep up the good work 👏

[@CallMeCJorDandy]

Recently , I saw my old town catholic church photo from a social media(early 19th century i think): theres no concrete roads just plain ground and muddy; women use to wear something similar like a petticoat. Man , times sure changed alot specially in fashion 👌🤣

[@ponyboymb]

Brilliant 🔥🔥 pictures, great work mixing them together. Have a super blessed weekend ahead 💯🙏💯

[@themeparkreel]

it’s amazing to see it’s growth into the leading resort it is today, it’s crazy to think it’s all built on sand

[@jack_timber]

Ahh the Fun house was the best place to be on a rainy day, you could spend hours there when I was a nipper. Unfortunately that's 60 years ago🙀😜

[@badgerlandcouk]

What a lovely film, showing an incredible mixture of old and new. Without doubt, the old-time pleasure beach used more sedate wooden rides, and the newer pleasure beach many more complex steel-girder structures. The thought that most of us will be left with it than the pleasure beach of old was about having a bit of pleasure on the rides that made up a major part of your holiday. Sadly, the modern-day pleasure beach often little more than a highly exploitative arrangement by which visitors can be fleeced for bit of cash they have access to. Yes the modern pleasure beach looks pretty grim out of season, but it isn't much better in the height of summer. To many modern day visitors to Blackpool, the pleasure beach is decades away from it's former glory. Hopefully, at some point, it will be sold to some new owners who will think about the happy days of the past and not just all the cash coming through the tills. Anyway, my complaint is with the modern owners and not you. You've made a great film -which really brings back the happy memories we all formed all those years ago. Thankyou.

[@macstyle2012]

I remember first going here in 1977, riding cable car from one end to the other.

[@kevincross9206]

Great video, always wipes away the years when the old photos are overlaid 👍🏻

[@paulvincent-squibb4383]

It just shows you that when it was free to enter the pleasure beach there was certainly a lot more people in there .

[@lanternsgc6652]

Well that's us in " overlay heaven" 🥰. 😂😂

[@hyperballadbradx6486]

Actual goosebumps :D

[@stephenbennett1989]

Is that her indoors singing

[@markosmith8037]

Superb. Excellent merging of the old and new contrasts of the Blackpool Pleasure Beach. This must be even better when you are familiar with the BPB. I have visited here several times but probably more familiar with the Morecambe Pleasure Park ("Frontierland") which is sadly no more 😞. Some very interesting photos that show how popular these places were. 10/10.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@bernardpage4639]

Just watched Blackpool Pleasure Beach now and then. Brilliant, I also watched the WinterGardens one and really enjoyed it, thanks.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Bernard

[@mikematthews2k181]

Amazing video Darren !! So many Memories, especially the laughing clown at the entrance.!! Never rode the rides as a kid I loved the food the arcade. The whole experience. It was free to enter and my parents spent their money 💰.Butlins up the Road 😅 How as a parent . I'm NOT prepared too pay the ticket price!

[@AdventureMe]

Pontins up the road or did you mean the Butlins Hotel?

[@lindseykaine-walley6339]

Wowza! Your video has blown me away!! It's a story well told by you with the fabulous photo fades. I'm not a fan of Blackpool but it definitely has a lot of history to it which many of us didn't know about until now. Thanks for sharing Darren 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you

[@ben43677]

Just brilliant, amazing pictures, great work darren 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Ben

[@davidedwards5920]

That brings back some happy memories when I visited with my parents in the early 60’s and still remember some of those old rides. What a treat it was. Great stuff Darren. 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks David

[@colinevans39]

Excellent took me back to my youth mad mouse log flume excellent fading away old and new great entertainment thanks 👍👍👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Colin

[@gaffysmenk]

That was ace man..

[@leehemp5316]

Love these videos especially of BP like my second home keep up the great videos

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Lee

[@GMMilambar]

That double ferris wheel, near what is now the main entrance, hasn't been gone that long really. I used to ride it as a child. It was one of only 4 rides that my father would let me go on. All the rest were "big boy rides".

[@AdventureMe]

Early 80s I think it went

[@clareriley]

Fantastic talent you have for these videos x

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks so much 😊

[@nigelgladwell1783]

brilliant brilliant what a brilliant love your blogs i love the pics how it used to be

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@kkrispy2009P]

OMG amazing footage and pics and history lesson

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks

[@shinychariotdetailing9707]

That was just fantastic great job on this video top man

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@craigsouthwell3484]

Brilliant video and the music was so apt too. ;-)

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Craig.

[@davidexley3110]

This is by far the best video you have put on, well done I loved it.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks David

[@simonbradshaw3708]

Enjoyed this series of videos, thank you

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Simon

[@TheThorntonBrapper]

The master of overlays! Great work as always :)

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Chris

[@nicklowe536]

It's grown so much amazing to see

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@stationhouse5866]

👍👍👍😊

[@spacehopper1968]

I have really enjoyed your videos so thank you so much for sharing. Going to Blackpool every summer as a child in the 1970s I couldn't wait to get to the pleasure beach. There is a ride which no-one seems to mention at all and I can't find any photos or information about it at all. All I remember is that when you got on the ride and into the cars there was a mechanical man playing an organ (Reginald Dixon perhaps?) Do you have any idea what this ride was and what it was called? If you have any photos that would be amazing.

[@AdventureMe]

This sounds like "the greatest show on earth" ride. It was where the burger king is now.

[@spacehopper1968]

@@AdventureMe No, this was a ride that I remember as a child in the early 1970s.

[@alexthomas637]

😎😎👍

[@peterbrown1909]

Great Video, but River caves is wrong, they have always been there, wild mouse was a tad further down.

[@AdventureMe]

Your looking at the extension queue line for river Caves, the caves are further down. That was added when mouse closed. I am stood opposite the pathway that ran down the side of the mouse.

[@peterbrown1909]

@@AdventureMe Ahjh, Thanks for the reply, stil a great video!!

[@mrlister2000]

What a superb video! Congrats Darren on this one. So many memories of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, and because of your series I learned that the whole site was actual on the beach until they seperated it! Who knew! I suppose the clue is in the name but I always thought it was called BPB because it was opposite the seafront! The demise of BPB was when they changed it from just being able to walk around and pay to go on rides, then to buying a book of tickets, to charging for a wristband but also charging people just to walk around the place. One of the main attractions for me was to be able to walk around and soak in the atmosphere of the thousands of people who went there, be it on a day trip or a weeks holiday. The funfair had a buzz about it. Even though you may not have gone on a ride, you still bought food and drink there and had a great day. But now I'm older, I'd just rather walk around and watch our children go on the rides, but I'm not paying £35 upwards just to do that! It used to be free to walk around, but still buying a wrist band for the ones that wanted to go on rides, then it went to £5, then it was full price, but i believe they were re-introducing a £10 walk-in charge, but even that is extracting the urine. Since wristbands were introduced, and i had a very long conversation with people at the funfair about this, I said that the number of people visiting would go down fast, and it has. Your pictures showed how busy it used to be, even on a cold wet day, but now its not that busy, compared to 10-15 years ago. Southport went down the wristband and charging to get in route and that bankrupted it. It was closed for a few years and left to rot, but gladly it got a new owner who doesn't charge you to walk around, and its very busy now.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@TheGlassman63]

Great pictures, naff music. I had to hit the mute button. Thanks anyway.

[@daleHarrison93]

do you leave reviews on google for a living lol

[@AdventureMe]

Great profile picure. Naff comment. I had to close my eyes. Thanks anyway. Lol